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Friday, 6 June 2008

The Incredibly Cute Saturn Soft Case

On my countless forays into the depths of the ebay Sega Saturn auctions, I spotted this sweet little... thing. At first I thought it's a boxed white Saturn, but the auction description lured me with the words "Soft Case". I dug further and found out, that this little fella is indeed a "Soft Case", whereas Sega probably meant "Software" and not the physical condition of the item. So, you can literally put software in it, which should be preferably Sega Saturn CDs, of course, and the case will protect it. You can choose to either put 4 CDs with jewel cases in it, or use the book like thing to put in even more CDs. 10 to be exact. What's a bit weird about that thing is, that you can also put the manuals in it. The back of the box also suggests, that you may carry your Sega Saturn joypad in it, which I haven't tested though.

The appearance of this thing is really cute for some odd reason. It nearly looks like an original white Sega Saturn, but it's different enough to be overly cute. I immediately fell in love with it and thus didn't care, that I had to pay approximately 60 USD for this thing. It's either rare or very sought after. The original price tag, when this thing was released, was around 14 USD (Yen 1,480). Talk about valorisation!

We all love a bargain... I remember when I first started collecting for the Saturn as a "Retro Gamer" (as opposed to a curre...

Celebrating 11 years of existence...and 7 years of excellence

Welcome to The Saturn Junkyard, a shrine to Sega's sadly departed console, for all lovers of retro gaming. A place where you can come and relive the glory days of the nineties and find out about the Saturn as a console: We'll take a sideways look at it's games, it's peripherals, it's history, it's marketing, plus shine the occasional spotlight on console modding and the homebrew scene. We make no claims to being authoritative, and everything we discuss will come with a heavy dose of personal opinion and subjectivity. But hopefully we'll raise a smile or two along the way!